Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: skillbridge
Version: 1.2.5
Summary: A seamless Python remote bridge to Cadence's Skill in Virtuoso
Home-page: https://github.com/unihd-cag/skillbridge
Author: Niels Buwen
Author-email: dev@niels-buwen.de
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # Python-Skill Bridge
        
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        ![build](https://github.com/unihd-cag/simple-geometry/workflows/Python%20package/badge.svg)
        
        ### Prerequisites
        
        - Python 3.6 or higher
        - pip
        - IC 6.1.7 or ICADV/M or higher
        
        ### Features
        
        - Run Virtuoso's Skill functions from Python
        - Automatically translate all Skill objects to Python
        - Automatically translate Python numbers, booleans, strings, lists and dictionaries to Skill
        - Retrieve Skill function documentation in Python
        - Convenient tab-completion (+ jupyter support)
          - object attributes
          - global function list
          - methods
        
        Read more in the [full documentation](https://unihd-cag.github.io/skillbridge/).
        
        ### Installation
        
        ```bash
        pip install skillbridge
        ```
        
        Add the `--user`  option if you don't want to install it systemwide.
        
        Before you can use the Skill bridge you must generate the function definitions from
        Virtuoso via the Skill console.
        
        1. Type `skillbridge path` into your shell to acquire the correct `PATH-TO-IPC-SERVER`
        2. Open Virtuoso
        2. Type these commands into the Skill console
            - `load("PATH-TO-IPC-SERVER")`
        
        After that you can also generate the static completion stub files. This is useful for code completion
        in certain IDEs (e.g. PyCharm)
        
        - Type `skillbridge generate` into your shell.
        
        ### Updating
        
        In order to update the python package type this
        
        ```bash
        pip install skillbridge --upgrade
        ```
        
        ### Examples
        
        **_Note:_** All these examples assume that the Skill server is running. You can
        start it by typing the following command into the Skill console.
        
        ```lisp
        load("PATH-TO-IPC-SERVER")
        pyStartServer
        ```
        
        ##### Connecting to the server
        
        ```python
        from skillbridge import Workspace
        
        ws = Workspace.open()
        ```
        
        ##### Accessing the currently open edit cell view
        
        ```python
        cell_view = ws.ge.get_edit_cell_view()
        ```
        
        ##### Inspecting available properties
        
        ```python
        >>> dir(cell_view)
        ['DBUPerUU', 'any_inst_count', 'area_boundaries', 'assoc_text_displays', 'b_box', ...]
        ```
        
        or type `cell_view.<TAB>` in jupyter/ipython
        
        ##### Reading properties
        
        ```python
        >>> print(cell_view.b_box)
        [[0, 10], [2, 8]]
        ```
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3)
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